Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-06-14
JEDGE WAXEM ABROAD
He INVESTIGATES THE MYSTERIES OF
LONDON TOWN.
He Wonders lat It's Sizs-SOms People from Near
Wayback-His Visit to the House Of Com
mOns-SsnatOr SpOOner and Chance
Acquaintance.


LONDON, May 20.
When first landed in Washington, ID.
c., as a member OF Congress from Way
back thought | had struck just as big a
town rs was on the foOtstOOl, but reign
travel has learned me a good de ! q
mighty short while. found it o Store
| had been in London fifteen minutes.
This town is bigger than my entire dee,
striek and the Deestrick of Columbia to
boot. But there's more beauty though, il
two squares of Washington than there is
in the whole of London, and quality is q
heap site more valuable to man Of my
mater than quantity.
The first day after we got here Mandy
and me concluded that the best thing to dc
was To 90 out to the suburbs somewhere
and git up on hi ITO git general view Of
the town, so we tOok stage and started
out. reckon we must have gone about q
dozen OF fifteen miles before we decided
that the best thing for us to dC
was to 90 back home and study up the
map.
/ have been wondering ever since how
the dickens they ever got such a whaling
big town onto such q vile island as Eng
land is. ~
/ find a good many Americans here, and
if didn't know every voter in my dees
trick should say some of the inhabitant:
of Wayback was in the lot. can tell &
man from Wayback as soon as / lay my eye:
on him, and though hain't seen any
right from headquarters, there's severa
nom The adjining counties. 1t makes one
feel good to meet them, too, for hayt
been right lonesome at times, and 80 hal
Mandy.
~
- met the Hon. Bayless Hanna, of In
diana, the ether day (he amt from Way.
back our United States Minister to tn
ArrSntine Republic, that wouldn't 20
the Persian court because the mileag'
co out of his salary land don't blame
hin. and we had long chat on the stree
corL>f, and went and took glass Of APP
pohnaris water. Bayless Is a Statesman
that admire. He is a plain man tina
knows how TO combine stateeraft will
harmless pleasure, and q good all round
statesman like that Is as valuable as he i
skeeree. That's one Of my best pints anC
pride myself on it.
NV colleague in the House, Hon. Perry
Belmont, of New York, Chairman of thu
Foreign Relations Committee, was also il
town when got here. / reckon he wa
getting solid with his foreign relations, tol
he had been out the night before eating :
meal of yittles with Randolph Churchill
who ought 10 be a member of Congress IL
our great and glorious Republic, instid o
representing deestrick in the House o
Commons under throne. Mr.. Belmont
was looking well as usual in his black sill
neck scarf and his grim gaze Of stern re
serve. Perry always struck me as states
man that was cut out for prime minister
or a bronze statute. Inever could settle
in my mind just which.
Senator Spooner, OF Wisconsin, wa:
doing the town up, too, like / was, anC
like me, he had his wife along. The Sen
ator had never been 50 far away from home
before, and never had, and think W.
was the gladdest two men to meet you eve
saw, MT. Editor. He had been looking
around, he said, to find somebody tina
spoke American, and he had heard mar
down on the Thames embankmsnt talking
and had tackled him. Says the Senator Il
him:
"Are you and Americana"
Thank God, am,n was the answer
and it reminded me as the Senator told il
that every American feels Just that yery
way, when he gets lonesome and fellow
citizen happens to find him, while his eye
are sore to see the star sp- ngled banner
and his ears are weary waiting to hear thu
inspiring strains of Yankee Doodle Dandy
Ny experience has learned me that the
lonesOmest eretur on Gods green earth is:
tine patriot on a foreign sile-unless he j:
there at Government expense, and lots Of
times even then.
The Senator was giving me some pint
on the exOrbitant and usurioas outrage:
imposed on him while crossing the ocean
By the walters and other people on the shiE
that brought him over. His fees to thi.
enemy that ship company aids and abet:
was SIS.
why, says the Senator, getting hot a